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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200708-14">
+ <title>NVIDIA drivers: Denial of service</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ A vulnerability has been discovered in the NVIDIA graphic drivers, allowing
+ for a Denial of Service.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">nvidia-drivers</product>
+ <announced>2007-08-19</announced>
+ <revised count="03">2007-10-11</revised>
+ <bug>183567</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">71.86.01</unaffected>
+ <unaffected range="rge">1.0.7185</unaffected>
+ <unaffected range="rge">1.0.9639</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="eq">100.14.06</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ The NVIDIA drivers provide support for NVIDIA graphic boards.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Gregory Shikhman discovered that the default Gentoo setup of NVIDIA
+ drivers creates the /dev/nvidia* with insecure file permissions.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A local attacker could send arbitrary values into the devices, possibly
+ resulting in hardware damage on the graphic board or a Denial of
+ Service.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All NVIDIA drivers users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3532">CVE-2007-3532</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-07-28T07:38:56Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-07-28T07:39:35Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-08-12T20:41:51Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>